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barn millet

barn millet

9.8
A coarse grass that grows each year, often seen as a weed and used for hay or grazing
  • noun
translation icon : mijo de granero
  • Because barn millet grows quickly, it can become a troublesome weed in cultivated fields.

Examples

  • Some farmers harvest barn millet as a low-cost source of hay.

  • The cattle grazed freely on the field of barn millet during the summer months.

  • Farmers often struggle with barn millet in their fields.

  • The barn millet grows quickly in warm weather.

  • Because barn millet grows quickly, it can become a troublesome weed in cultivated fields.

  • The cattle grazed freely on the field of barn millet during the summer months.

  • Some farmers harvest barn millet as a low-cost source of hay.

Synonyms

Echinochloa crusgalli
vsbarn millet
  • Specialized
9.9

A coarse grass that grows each year as a common weed worldwide and is sometimes used for animal feed

is the common, nontechnical name for that same coarse grass
barn grass
vsbarn millet
8.3

A common weed grass that farmers sometimes cut for hay or feed animals

is a general term used for that coarse weed rather than the technical name
barnyard grass
vsbarn millet
  • Specialized
7.5

A common wild grass that grows in wet farm fields and that animals sometimes eat

is the everyday name for that coarse grass sometimes used as grazing
Japanese barnyard millet
vsbarn millet
  • US
9.9

A rough grass people grow each year for its seeds and animal feed

is mainly a wild coarse grass often considered a weed and occasional forage
foxtail millet
vsbarn millet
  • Specialized
7.7

A rough grass that grows in dry places and is grown for grain and animal feed

is usually a noncultivated coarse plant valued mainly as occasional grazing
Japanese millet
vsbarn millet
7.9

A coarse grass grown each year for grain and to feed animals

is more often an uncultivated coarse grass used only sometimes for hay
sanwa millet
vsbarn millet
  • Specialized
9.9

A grass grown for its seeds and animal feed

is generally a wild coarse grass rather than a purposefully cultivated crop
German millet
vsbarn millet
7.5

A plant with yellow grains and large hanging seed heads grown for food and animal feed

is usually a weed with occasional use for grazing rather than a crop
broomcorn millet
vsbarn millet
  • Specialized
9.1

A small grain plant grown for food and animal feed

is a coarser wild grass more often serving as incidental hay or grazing
hog millet
vsbarn millet
9.3

A grass that grows once a year for its grain and is used as animal feed

is more often a common coarse grass seen as a weed yet grazed occasionally
Italian millet
vsbarn millet
8.4

A rough grass grown each year for grain or animal feed that grows well in dry soil

is mainly a wild coarse species valued less as a deliberate crop
cattail millet
vsbarn millet
8.9

A tall grass with thick round seed heads that farmers grow for grain and animal food

is a generally weedy coarse grass with limited intentional cultivation for seed
bulrush millet
vsbarn millet
  • US
9.5

A tall grass grown in dry areas for its edible grain, animal feed, and brewing

is typically an uncontrolled coarse grass used only sometimes for grazing
pearl millet
vsbarn millet
5.9

A tall grass grown for grain used for food, animal feed and making beer

is a coarse plant more often considered a weed with occasional forage use
Siberian millet
vsbarn millet
  • UK
8.3

A grass with orange to red grains on long rough spikes grown for animal feed

is primarily a coarse wild grass not chiefly cultivated for fodder
Indian millet
vsbarn millet
  • Indian
7.0

A grass that grows in dry areas and farmers grow for animal feed or grain

is typically a common coarse grass seen as a wild weed rather than a crop
African millet
vsbarn millet
  • Indian
8.7

A plant that grows in dry regions and has seeds used to make a somewhat bitter flour

is mainly a coarse weedlike grass used only occasionally for hay or grazing
Texas millet
vsbarn millet
  • US
9.1

An annual grass grown for hay in the southern United States

is a broadly defined coarse wild grass often left as unmanaged forage

Surface Forms

barn millet singular
barn millets plural

Morphology

barn + millet

The meaning is directly compositional: 'millet' names a small-seeded grass and 'barn' modifies it to indicate a variety or millet associated with farms/storage, so a B1 learner can infer it refers to a kind of coarse grass used/found around barns for hay or grazing. This place/modifier + noun pattern is regular in English and cross-linguistically common, making the MWE transparent from its constituents.

Etymology

Barn millet may come from the sight of rough millet growing beside a farm's barn, where farmers used it as cheap 'hay' or left it as a 'weed'. So the name now means a coarse grass often used for 'hay' or seen as a 'weed'.